Dear All,

OmegaT standard version 2.6.3 was released.

Following version 2.5.5, OmegaT 2.6.3 is the new standard version of OmegaT.

It comes with a new updated English manual. Like the previous one, it was done
by Vito Smolej. As Vito has now resigned as documentation manager, we take the
opportunity to thank him for the huge work he has done.

Compared with 2.5.5, 2.6.3 brings 27 enhancements and some bug corrections.

The biggest improvement is the handling of team projects.
Using a standard Subversion or Git server, an unlimited number of translators
can collaborate on the same project, sharing translations and glossary entries.
The projects can be used both online and offline. When getting online again,
changes done offline are synchronised.
Read-only access to a project is also possible.

Microsoft Translator (2 million characters per month are free of charge) is now
supported. It requires setting identifiers, which can be obtained from the
Windows Azure Marketplace.

The display of the match pane is now configurable, and a “diff” display is
available, to show new and deleted text in matches. In all panes, the cursor is
now available, allowing selecting and copying text using the keyboard.

There are now markers for whitespace (space, tab, newline) and bidi-characters
in the View menu. Tag colouring now works for RTL languages/orientation. When
translating a Word (.docx) document and the target language is RTL, a number of
changes are done to the target document:
- Paragraphs, sections and tables are set to bidi.
- Runs (text elements) are set to RTL.

In addition, all spaces are now preserved in Word documents.

Validating tag now supports partial verification, where only “severe” tag
issues are reported.

It is possible to apply penalties to external TMXs, and to load a TMX as an
“alternative source”, the source segment displaying both languages. Gzipped
(.tmx.gz) TMXs are now supported.

In the list of files of the project, the encoding and the filter used are now
displayed.

Remove tags is now a project property feature, instead of being a global option

The PO filter now supports plural forms, and it is possible to ignore the
headers in the Editor.
All the changes and bug fixes are detailed in changes.txt.
Compared with the latest version 2.6.2, there are 2 enhancements: OmegaT can now
import the result of external scripts and parsing external command arguments is
more flexible.
For Git team projects, an issue was fixed with line ending on non-Windows
machines.

For this release, the Latest version 2.6.3, although labelled “beta” for
practical reasons, is exactly the same as the standard one.

You can download the new version following the directions from
http://www.omegat.org/en/downloads.html
for standard versions.